General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRF-26-0219
Direction
DRF
Thesis topic details
Category
Corpuscular physics and outer space
Thesis topics
Dimensionality reduction method applied to the deformed coupled cluster ab initio many-body method
Contract
Thèse
Job description
The theoretical description from first principles, i.e. in a so-called ab initio manner, of atomic nuclei containing more than 12 nucleons has only recently become possible thanks to the crucial developments in many-body theory and the availability of increasingly powerful high-performance computers. These ab initio techniques are successfully applied to study the structure of nuclei, starting from the lightest isotopes and now reaching all medium-mass nuclei containing up to about 80 nucleons. The extension to even heavier systems requires decisive advances in terms of storage cost and computation time induced by available many-body methods. In this context, the objective of the thesis is to develop the dimensionality reduction method based on the factorization of tensors involved in the non-perturbative many-body theory known as deformed coupled cluster (dCC). The proposed work will exploit the latest advances in nuclear theory, including the use of nuclear potentials from chiral effective field theory and renormalization group techniques, as well as high-performance computing resources and codes.
University / doctoral school
PHENIICS (PHENIICS)
Paris Sud
Thesis topic location
Site
Saclay
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2026
Person to be contacted by the applicant
DUGUET Thomas
thomas.duguet@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRFU
CEA Saclay
DRF/IRFU/DPhN
Bat 703
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette
0169082338
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
DUGUET Thomas
thomas.duguet@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRFU
CEA Saclay
DRF/IRFU/DPhN
Bat 703
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette
0169082338
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